The court: “Damage to NXP is not the result of the publication of the article but of the production and sale of a chip that appears to have shortcomings.” But with over 1 billion cards sold, the impact of publishing would be devastating.
“I’m very happy that the court upheld the right to open research and freedom of publication,” said K. Nohl, a gratuate student at the university of Virginia. CNET News “I’m also happy that the court understood that publishing vulnerabilities is a crucial part of the evolution of security and a different court outcome would have slowed down that evolution of smart card security and left too many systems vulnerable.”

But for those of you that are thinking of setting up your own card business, Mifare mentions that there are techniques and countermeasures to detect cards and data which have been tampered with. (read more)